In her article, "Sponsors of Literacy", Deborah Brandt focuses on literacy skills and where they are acquired. She talks about sponsorship and access and the standards of literacy over time. She states "what I have tried to suggest is that as we assist and study individuals in pursuit of literacy, we also recognize how literacy is in pursuit of them". This may mean we all need literacy and eventually we will find each other.
QD
1. They are “agents, local or distant, concrete or abstract, who teach, model, support, recruit, extort, deny, or suppress literacy and gain advantage by it in some way”. This means there are many characteristics of a literacy sponsor but that they all meet in the same category.
3. They focus on the higher class in society, they act as if one set individual is better than another.
4. I think by stratified she means put together, and the stakes are the meanings of literacy and the high standards.
AEI
1. My primary literacy sponsors have been my teachers, family, and friends. I've learned academic, social, and emotional literacies through those people. I learned how to apply both social and academic into my school work and my every day life. I haven't had much religious literacies. I have basically formed my own beliefs.
Reflection
I believe this was a decent article. I struggled with understanding everything she was trying to say and I feel as if I might've gotten some things mixed up when answering the questions. It was interesting to learn about literacy and how it ties into the daily lives of individuals.
I liked your ae because i think it helped me understand literacy more in how it has been applied into your life.
ReplyDeleteLanie,
ReplyDeleteGood impulse to try and explain Brandt's quote in your summary; you do need to explain what Brandt intends, means, argues, in her article more than just what she says. Try to focus on WHY she says what she does. You might try using the template I supplied with the informal writing assignment sheet.